Is Northumberland County Councils Fill-in Deputy Leader Being Used by his Boss?

 

With Northumberland Conservatives, history often repeats itself. Councillor Glenn Sanderson was the Leader of Castle Morpeth Borough Council during the 2000’s. He had to take an unplanned break from the role for personal and family reasons.

Most people involved with local politics in Northumberland fully expected that when he was able to return to his Council that his Deputy, Councillor Peter Jackson who had been promoted to temporary Leader would stand aside and Glenn would lead Northumberland Conservatives into the charge to control the new Unitary Council when it formed in 2008/9. Its believed that Councillor Jackson in a vicious moment reused to honour the agreement between them and pressurised him out of his political inheritance.

History shows that Councillor Jackson couldn't rally his troops in 2009 and lost the election to the Liberal Democrats having to form an alliance with independents to stop his party sitting in third place at the unitary table.

Supported by the majority of Conservatives Councillor Sanderson was brought back to life as the Tories Deputy Leader in opposition for two council sessions of 9 yeas in total, but even after all his hard work in gaining control of the Council, Peter Jackson ditched him once again in May 2017 preferring Cramlington’s Wayne Daley as his Deputy.

Now in their hour of need with with Wayne Daley’s desertion of his post, a Council and its attached companies operating in a heavily damaged and unstable operating environment and with the public baying for blood, Councillor Sanderson has once again stepped up to the plate to save the day.

The question the public want to have answered and those on many observers lips is Why does a long serving Magistrate want to be tied up with his nefarious colleagues in a police investigation for wrong doing?

Or is it in that why Peter Jackson who’s questionable decisions have led the Council to the cliff edge chose to enlist his help?

May we remind you Councillor Sanderson that even Justice of the Peace do time for wrongdoings, and how can you trust your cohorts when they so openly stabbed you more than once previously?